Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

Life on the road, even for a worldly man like C. W. Post and his well-bred daughter, presented certain challenges. although he could order meals, fasten Marjorie's buttons, and make sure that she was properly dressed, C. W. could not fix her hair.

There was only me to save me, because no one else cared.

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: no one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

No one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.

That afternoon I saw that for an alternative therapy to succeed, the patient must have an internal concept of power—an ability to generate internal energy and emotional resources, such as a belief in his or her self-sufficiency.

She watered her pepper plants with the water she used to rinse out her unmentionables....

John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, 'you leave me be, and I'll leave you be';

Well, I'll tell you one thing, you can give him all the help in the world, but unless he learns to fend for himself, it'll be useless.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.

I'm not a person of mentors.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

I don't have session players come in and guitars, I'm doing the drums, I'm doing the scratching, I'm doing every sound you hear and that's always been my way. And not only that, I'm very meticulous about it just sounding right.

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

I'm a good eater and like to make my own meals. I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Man, just give me a couple of million dollars and let me go on my own, and I will be just fine.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.